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will erickson 🐧🦉
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
July 11! I'm hosting a reading in Chicago at The Whistler with some of my favorite writers & favorite people. Doors at 6. Hope to see you there!

@willerickson.bsky.social x @saramatson.bsky.social x @evansquilliams.bsky.social x Lemmy Ya'akova x Nathan Hoks x @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
June 12, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jun 12
July 11! I'm hosting a reading in Chicago at The Whistler with some of my favorite writers & favorite people. Doors at 6. Hope to see you there!

@willerickson.bsky.social x @saramatson.bsky.social x @evansquilliams.bsky.social x Lemmy Ya'akova x Nathan Hoks x @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
June 12, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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come find me. I'll be existing.
travel dates for william erickson 6/7 YDHTB Launch @IPRC, Portland 7/7 I can't speak, Zoom-o-Sphere 7/8 Banana Pitch, Portland 7/11 The Whistler, Chicago 7/15 Splice, New Orleans 8/15 Constellations, Portland 9/12 Ghost Town, Vancouver white dude standing in front of a pink house with dingy windows
May 30, 2024 at 6:13 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
I'm sorry i so often forget this app exists, but if you can hear me my book drops today!! snag a copy at the link in comments or hit me up (somehow) for a signed one!
May 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
excited to report today that the rain is a sundial
May 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Chia-Lun Chang
via Nightboat
THE REMAIN The longer the building remains the blurrier the memory sculpts Only variations remain once in a while, rivers, always joggers, ups and downs The remain of the city eats buildings out, and converts residents and besties to skylines. The city is too full to preserve my body In order to build assets in my womb, I hang in the street and shadow the city. I don't know how to deal with uncertainty, yet my routine sculpts a route between new architectures, old temperatures.
April 20, 2024 at 4:54 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
ok ok, book is available for preorder! here's a poem that's in the book that was also in West Branch a while back, an erasure my great homie @stonespiral.bsky.social made of that same poem, plus the actual book April Gloaming made, which will be physically instantiated may 14
deets below 👇
April 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
over the sun grateful for this blurb from lovely kind friend
@divinetailor.bsky.social for the ol' book, which'll be out in a month and which you can now order below... (some of jay's work in 🧵)
"I sit outside in the weather / and listen for languages,' william erickson tells us. These poems are the result of that listening. In the poet's body, languages build up, until they emerge dense and potent in structures so quiet, so devastating, so multidimensional that readers reel in slow-mo from one delicious soft shock to another. The speaker's body extends into the landscape, and/ or the landscape furnishes parts of the ongoing, changing body, 'folding into earth like an unblooming apple. These poems are hauntings, too; we will want and need to keep returning to them, will carry them with u1S in mutual inhabitation. 'Ghosts are just bodies too great to keep hidden inside.' We are lucky to accompany erickson on his world- and word-making journeys, where [o]n the lip of the desert / [his] tongues pile up,' and so do ours." jay besemer, author of your tongue is as long as a tuesday
April 15, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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thanks you guys. all the love to you :)
hexliterary.bsky.social hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Apr 5
really excited to have two of @willerickson.bsky.social 's hex poems featured on Poetry Daily today! get yrself some joy 👇
"Two Poems" by William Erickson
from Hex Literary
poems.com
April 5, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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gendeguzman.bsky.social
More publishing projects like this! Foldable surreal puzzle poem beauty from Tilted House by @willerickson.bsky.social
March 23, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
I’m really excited to have this new longish poem in the first issue of @notmystyle.bsky.social! thank you @willerickson.bsky.social for making this beautiful publication 💜 www.notmy.style/tom-snarsky
TOM SNARSKY Tower in Orange and Green I. I have wintered in my selfishness Which did not produce fruit. I bought [the next line is cut off, but can be read at the link in the post]
March 1, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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y'all it's home!
notmy.style/issue-1
notmystyle.bsky.social Not My Style @notmystyle.bsky.social · Mar 1
yall, issue 1 is free!! (when is bluesky getting video?)

ch3ck out @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, TR Brady, @stonespiral.bsky.social, @lizkellebrew.com, Caleb Bouchard, Réka Nyitrai, Christine Shan Shan Hou, @rorty.bsky.social, @transputation.bsky.social, @lowghost.bsky.social, and Tyler Barton!!!!!!!!
March 1, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
just really really excited that in the next week and a half, I have 2 longer poems coming out—1 in the 1st issue of @notmystyle.bsky.social (which looks amazing & drops Friday!!) & 1 on 3/8 via @metatronpress.bsky.social’s GLYPHÖRIA platform which is also the title poem of my forthcoming book :) ⛰️💜
part of NOT MY STYLE’s homepage — see notmy.style for more :) METATRON PRESS A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOM SNARSKY GLYPHÖRIA DIGITAL PUBLICATION SERIES 004
February 27, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Robyn Schelenz
@robynschelenz.bsky.social
[] The trees finished dinner It was very late at night. The spidets nevet understood Why the spiders of the sea Were so upset with them. The ocean has water but it's all useless filled with empty words.
February 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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still vibing from all this actually! was astounding! tyty Sara!
January 24, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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oh hey look what's happening tomorrow!! you should come throoooooo‼️‼️
January 22, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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willerickson.bsky.social
word has it these are zooming perty fast. only 75 ever to exist so if you want one... no pressure tho lol
willerickson.bsky.social will erickson 🐧🦉 @willerickson.bsky.social · Jan 15
sry...forgot abt this place!
it's here: NOTHING LIED STILL IN THE SEA is available for pre-order rn with Tilted House! so grateful for their love and care and attention with this octavo (!!) of 12 little pomes. they're close to me i hope you check 'em out
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/preorde...
the cover/sleeve of Nothing Lied Still In the Sea, a handmade letterpress octavo from Tilted House Press, a lovely sea-like texture with bluish ink patterns and green type
January 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
word has it these are zooming perty fast. only 75 ever to exist so if you want one... no pressure tho lol
willerickson.bsky.social will erickson 🐧🦉 @willerickson.bsky.social · Jan 15
sry...forgot abt this place!
it's here: NOTHING LIED STILL IN THE SEA is available for pre-order rn with Tilted House! so grateful for their love and care and attention with this octavo (!!) of 12 little pomes. they're close to me i hope you check 'em out
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/preorde...
the cover/sleeve of Nothing Lied Still In the Sea, a handmade letterpress octavo from Tilted House Press, a lovely sea-like texture with bluish ink patterns and green type
January 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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saramatson.bsky.social
todays obsession: Sandbox by William Erickson from Bottlecap Press @willerickson.bsky.social #BottlecapPress
January 16, 2024 at 4:35 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
sry...forgot abt this place!
it's here: NOTHING LIED STILL IN THE SEA is available for pre-order rn with Tilted House! so grateful for their love and care and attention with this octavo (!!) of 12 little pomes. they're close to me i hope you check 'em out
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/preorde...
the cover/sleeve of Nothing Lied Still In the Sea, a handmade letterpress octavo from Tilted House Press, a lovely sea-like texture with bluish ink patterns and green type
January 15, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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astrolabe.ooo
The Universe expands once again with the Range, featuring @taracampbell.bsky.social, @willerickson.bsky.social, @addisonzeller.bsky.social, Mandira Pattnaik, Marina Ramil, Shannan Mann, and Lesh Karan.

Thank you to everyone who's explored with us over the last year.

astrolabe.ooo
A constellation-esque visualization of seven "stars," of various colors, around the word "Range."
December 21, 2023 at 5:01 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
going up and above the bluesky with the inimitable @astrolabe.ooo so many thanks for making such space!
astrolabe.ooo Astrolabe @astrolabe.ooo · Dec 21
The Universe expands once again with the Range, featuring @taracampbell.bsky.social, @willerickson.bsky.social, @addisonzeller.bsky.social, Mandira Pattnaik, Marina Ramil, Shannan Mann, and Lesh Karan.

Thank you to everyone who's explored with us over the last year.

astrolabe.ooo
A constellation-esque visualization of seven "stars," of various colors, around the word "Range."
December 21, 2023 at 5:09 PM
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amylorrainelong.bsky.social
First post.So much pressure. Thanks for getting me here, @willerickson.bsky.social.
December 15, 2023 at 6:31 PM
willerickson.bsky.social
stoked for this. there's so much stunning work in this series, i'd strongly advise binging---Ben and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi and Evan Williams and Lee Sumyeong and Evan Nicholls and Jake Levine and Joyelle McSweeney and Zachary Schomburg and on and on for days.
December 13, 2023 at 12:46 AM